Pinback button for a panel of teenage pregnancy prevention: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

A white, black, and red pinback button for the D.C. Mayor's Blue Ribbon Panel on Teenage Pregnancy Prevention. Around the outer edge of the button red text reads [The D.C. Mayor's Blue Ribbon Panel / On Teenage Pregnancy Prevention]. At center there is an image of chalkboard with and [X] through the board. The text on the board reads [Children Having Children]. The back of the button has a metal pin with a clasp.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: ca. 1985
• Manufactured by: Unidentified
• Subject of: District of Columbia Public Schools, American, founded 1805
• Type: buttons (information artifacts)
• Medium: ink on paper with metal and plastic
• Dimensions: H x W x D: 2 1/4 × 2 1/4 × 5/16 in. (5.7 × 5.7 × 0.8 cm)
• Place depicted: Washington, District of Columbia, United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Activism
• Topic: Associations and institutions
• Topic: Children
• Topic: Education
• Topic: Health
• Topic: Local and regional
• Topic: Parenthood
• Object number: 2013.68.48
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of T. Rasul Murray
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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